The target killing of Shia professionals, poets and civilians has gone on for decades in Pakistan. Several doctors, lawyers, poets, elegy writers and reciters, professors, laborers and business owners have been callously murdered in DI Khan, just as they have faced a similar situation all over Pakistan. Their only fault is that they belong to the Shia Muslim school of thought.

The liberal intelligentsia in Pakistan has also contributed to this state of affairs. Out of their sectarian tribal sympathies and their general tendency to obfuscate those issues where financial opportunities are lacking, the liberal elites of Pakistan have purposely either ignored Shia Genocide or misrepresented it deliberately in false binary terms.